Reading Nelligan
By: Emile J. Talbot.
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Montreal; Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 221
Subjects: Nelligan, Emile, 1879-1941 -- Criticism and interpretation; Nelligan, Émile, 1879-1941 -- Critique et interprétation
Description: "The first in-depth study in English of one of Canada's finest French poets, Emile Talbot's textual analysis is integrated with a consideration of the social, cultural, artistic, and religious climate of both late nineteenth-century Montreal and the European literary culture to which Nelligan was responding. Talbot considers such pertinent factors as the spirituality of guilt, the role of the mother, and a societal context that rejected both the revelation of the self and the autonomy of art.

In doing so he sheds new light on Nelligan's use of European poetic language to fashion a poetry marked by his own culture."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-214) and index.